OBSERVATIONS ON POPULAR ANTIQUITIES

Authors: Brand, John, A.B.

Bourne, Henry, M.A.

Categories: Non-fiction

History

Year: 1777

Publisher: J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London

Pagination: xix, [1]-410, [411]-430, [2] p.

Dimensions: 22.3 x 13 cm

City: Newcastle Upon Tyne

Document Type: Book

Language: English

Printer: T. Saint

Preface: [iii]-ix 'THE | GENERAL PREFACE.' [xvi]-xvii 'The | PREFACE.'

Index: [411]-430 'GENERAL INDEX.'

Other Content: [xvi]-xix 'The CONTENTS | OF THE | ANTIQUITATES VULGARES.' [1] p. 'ERRATA.'

Advertisements: [2] p. 'Just published by the same Author, | ON | ILLICIT LOVE. | A POEM.'

Dedication: xiii-xv 'TO THE | Right Worshipful and Worshipful | WILLIAM CARR, Esq; Mayor.' (by Henry Bourne)

Marginalia: Front free endpaper 'Laverne Whistler's | copy - read + | annotated by him | in preparing | English Festivals'. Front blank page '(?) by R Beilby gr. John | (in Isaac Taylor Style) | to whom Beilby | (?) Bewick | was apprenticed.' title-page 'Laurence Whistler'.

Binding: Brown, half calf. Front and back covers marbled board. SPINE: [gilt/blind-tooled design; gilt-tooled lettering] '(line design) | (line design) | 'BRAND'S | POPULAR | ANTIQUITIES' (on dark brown calf) | (line design) | (line design) | (line design) | (line design) | 1777 | (line)'.

Edges: Trimmed, speckled (red)

Notes:

Full title: OBSERVATIONS ON POPULAR ANTIQUITIES: INCLUDING THE WHOLE OF MR. BOURNE'S ANTIQUARIAN VULGARES, WITH ADDENDA TO EVERY CHAPTER OF THAT WORK: AS ALSO, AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING SUCH ARTICLES ON THE SUBJECT, AS HAVE BEEN OMITTED BY THAT AUTHOR.